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This article assumes that Bing is in the business of telling people what to think It's not; it's in the business of showing what people think
by puranjay 8y ago
This article assumes that Bing is in the business of telling people what to think
It's not; it's in the business of showing what people think
- pjc50 8y agoNo, a search engine literally tells you what to look at, based on what you told it. And for many people there's a short path between seeing and believing. The autocomplete suggestions are a suggestion: would you like to search for this? And in the minds of many people that normalises it. "Stochastic terrorism" is a real problem. You've got one guy mailing out bombs and another shooting up a synagogue based on lies they read on the internet, just this past week. This stuff has consequences.